Chapter 2129: Battle of the Two Cities! (Part 7)

Penguin hung up the phone with a confused face.

He looked down at himself, turned to look at his phone, and then turned back to look at the gang thugs waiting at the door, not knowing for a moment who had gone crazy.

There were few people in the Cat Getan Police Department who hadn't been conquered by him, and James Gordon was one of them, so Penguin paid extra attention to him. He knew Gordon was like a dinosaur egg, looking as fragile as a chicken egg on the surface, but once he found an opportunity, he would definitely make him suffer.

Fortunately, he had a weakness. Penguin thought while feeling the edge of his phone. People with weaknesses are always easily manipulated, so Gordon's upright and unyielding characteristic could instead be used by him. After all, Cat Getan's political scene was not a pool of stagnant water, and many people were eyeing the position under his butt.

To make Gordon a useful old musket, one had to firmly hold the trigger named Barbara. A killer's name was about to slip out of Penguin's mouth.

But he thought again, what did Gordon's last call to him mean? It sounded like a provocation: there are only two months left until the election, and you still have a pile of messes to clean up.

But this kind of provocation was good for no one. Gordon would want to solve the trouble at the docks and streets more than anyone else because there were normal livelihood facilities there.

And Gordon was a good policeman, so even if these territories were under Penguin's control, he would try his best to protect them.

On this point, their interests were consistent. Gordon was not the type of person to call and chat when he had nothing to do, so what did he mean by saying this?

Penguin was thinking when Gordon's phone called again. Penguin answered and hummed twice, his aquiline nose rising higher. If this damn detective dared to talk to him in that mocking tone again, he would definitely make his daughter look good.

As a result, he heard Gordon say.

"Listen, Oswald, I don't have time to talk nonsense with you. The current situation is indeed a bit too complicated, but I think you are right about one thing: you are a businessman, not a politician."

"If I had to compare which of the two is worse, I couldn't choose at all, but under any circumstances, you will maintain your territory for the sake of your industry, while politicians will only do nothing after being elected."

Penguin felt more and more wrong the more he listened.

"Prepare a batch of weapons and send them to the warehouse on Gale Street. Also, I need about 20 strong guys, the stronger the better. If the New York police department doesn't act, then this city should belong to Cat Getan."

The phone was hung up again.

Penguin was flattered.

Penguin certainly knew about the problem of insufficient police force in the Cat Getan Police Department, but as Gordon said, he was a businessman. As long as there was still one hard bone in the Cat Getan Police Department resisting him, he wouldn't easily place a bet, let alone make a large investment.

Even if he had countless weapons rusting in the warehouse, he wouldn't add bricks and tiles to an organization that had the possibility of resisting him.

Gordon had never disdained his help, even if this prematurely aged sheriff was almost drowned in Cat Getan's crime wave, he still gritted his teeth and held on, and could even take out a few bits of composure to mock him.

Penguin hated this contempt, but also feared and envied it. He was never a person who dared to love and hate, unable to imagine why a person in a desperate situation could refuse to kneel and still laugh at the unfair and cold fate.

Penguin had never imagined that he would be recognized by such a person, so his being flattered was no exaggeration.

But he was suspicious after all, and at this moment he began to think about what he had done to make Gordon change his mind, or was it that this die-hard sheriff finally changed his mind and started using conspiracies to set traps?

This was not checked, but once checked, he was shocked. Penguin looked at the accident report. Whose subordinate was this again?

He had long known about the trouble at the port, but he didn't expect this matter to be so bizarre. Even if he searched all of Cat Getan, he might not be able to find such a large sand mountain. Had Cat Getan's broom finally become a spirit?

The circuit network accident on the street was even more heavy-duty. Within a few seconds of the accident, the electricity consumption was more than Penguin had in the previous year. These electricity amounts were enough to supply half of Cat Getan for a week.

This wasn't over. Penguin soon received a report from the sugar factory located on the North Island, claiming that a large group of mutant bees had attacked their factory, much stronger than the mutant brown bears, mutant honey badgers, etc., they usually encountered. The factory's security couldn't handle it at all.

Immediately after, a Beetle kidnapped the butler who was on his way to work at the Mayor's mansion and hijacked the TV channel, demanding a ransom.

Before Penguin could make a response, the political news editor of the Cat Getan Daily announced a video to the public, in which Penguin was spitting and arranging for killers to assassinate political opponents, his ugly posture fully revealed.

Penguin was a bit dazed by this series of continuous punches. Could these inexplicable criminals be the fuse for Gordon to finally defect to him?

This was no accidental event. Penguin keenly sensed that although on the surface this was an accident caused by some criminals taking advantage of the fire after the two cities merged, if you look closely at the underlying logic, this was clearly aimed at him.

First of all, he invested a lot in Gale Street, and it was a newly invested industry. Apart from entertainment industries such as bars and nightclubs, there were poppy factories underground. Most importantly, he spent a lot of money to get an electronic system to manipulate votes that hadn't been enabled yet, and it was very likely that it wouldn't catch up with this election because the circuit was scrapped.

The importance of the deep-water port goes without saying. The good goods that Penguin got that others couldn't get were all shipped from this port.

Penguin sitting in the mayor's position was at least 60% to legally transform the port according to his own wishes. Now it was almost half finished, but the deep-water port was filled with sand, and it wouldn't be usable in the short term. This was simply stabbing a knife into Penguin's main artery.

The sugar factory on the North Island was actually a disguised drug factory, mainly used to manufacture some new types of chemically synthesized drugs. There was only one sugar production line, so how could it attract bees? Could it be that this group of mutant monster bees were also drug addicts?

The factory on the North Island was Penguin's money bag. Although traditional drugs had a stable source and high-end goods were very popular, if you talk about making money, chemical drugs were more cost-effective.

The butler at the Mayor's mansion had been helping Penguin manage the public opinion window. He was one of the few "own people" in the party Penguin belonged to, with sharp news and timely action, worthy of being Penguin's right-hand man.

And Penguin couldn't understand that recording even more. Although he had indeed assassinated his political opponents, this kind of thing was common in Cat Getan, and there was no need to specifically find a room to talk about it. It was just a wave of the hand, a look.

This was clearly a forged video specially made by someone to influence his reputation, but this thing was too real, and there would definitely be many people taking the opportunity to amplify it and guide public opinion.

Penguin immediately realized how unfavorable the current situation was to him, and the first thing he had to do was to figure out who directed all this.

Penguin hesitated for a moment, wanting to call the sheriff of the Cat Getan Police Department, but he knew that although the dog he raised was loyal, it was really not fierce enough, and the best detective he could rely on was only James Gordon.

"James, I think you have realized how unfavorable the situation is to us." Penguin held the phone in one hand and tapped the armrest with his fingers in the other and said: "Someone wants to target me taking advantage of the chaos of the city merger, and without any regard for the order of the city."

"Just as you said, I am a businessman. To protect my industry, I will try my best. Even if I can't provide justice, I can provide enough jobs, and those real lunatics just want to kill everyone."

"Go check who is manipulating all this behind the scenes. Give me a name, and I will let him know what a painful price he will pay for his stupid behavior."

Putting down the phone, Gordon let out a long sigh. The feeling of cooperating with Penguin was not good at all, but he connected the several accidents that happened in the city faster than Penguin.

The other party was clearly the type of person who didn't care about casualties as long as they could achieve their goal. Gordon believed that compared to Penguin, he should deal with this more brutal person first.

But just as he hung up the phone, a strange number called in. Gordon hesitated for a moment, but still answered the phone.

"Hello, Sheriff Gordon, very happy to talk to you."

The voice on the other side sounded very low, with a buzzing sound that made people resonate willingly, but some small sounds in the background made Gordon's heart hang up.

"Sorry, James, your daughter is crying too hard. I don't want her to disturb our conversation. For this, you can chat with her for a few words, but please remember, this is my mercy."

"Barbara, Barbara!!" Gordon roared: "You kidnapped my daughter, you damn bastard..."

A scream came from the background immediately, making Gordon swallow all the sounds back into his stomach. He didn't even dare to breathe. The hand holding the phone trembled constantly, and the muscles on his face began to twitch.

"Don't be like this, let Barbara go, I beg you." Gordon gritted his teeth and said: "If something happens to her, you won't get anything."

"I didn't want to get anything from you, Sheriff, and you have nothing you can give me. I'm not like that fool called Cobblepot, needing the help of the police to rule this city."

"God gave me a broader stage, so I naturally have to seize this opportunity. I just need to give you a lesson."

Gordon just opened his mouth to say something, but the phone was snatched away by Peter in the back row. Peter roared at the phone.

"Kingpin! Don't think that just because you used a voice changer, I wouldn't recognize your tone. You're dead!"

"Oh? Spider-Man? I thought you were dead."

Kingpin sneered and said: "That waste Electro didn't make the collider completely scrapped, and you actually survived."

Peter immediately stared with wide eyes. So the high-energy physics collider accident wasn't done by that mysterious black sun, but a trap Kingpin set for him. Kingpin hired the Sinister Six!

"I won't let you succeed." Peter clenched his fists and said: "If you don't release the hostage immediately, I swear this time you will stay in prison until you are old and die!"

"No matter what you say, Spider-Man, this new city is mine. No one can stop me."

"Ah!!!!!"

At the same time the female scream came, Gordon stepped on the gas pedal crazily. ===== CHAPTER 2130 =====